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Aí Cana

  • prose
  • Early Irish law texts
  • extent: not extant
An early Irish legal text that is known only through allusions to it made elsewhere as one of the four ‘canons’ of poetic knowledge.
Title
Aí Cana
It is uncertain whether the second element refers to the word cáin or to the personal name Cano.(1)n. 1 Liam Breatnach, Companion to CIH (2005): 162.
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Early Irish law textsEarly Irish law texts
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Sources

Notes

Liam Breatnach, Companion to CIH (2005): 162.

Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.  

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

162 [id. 5.2.]
Contributors
C. A., Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
January 2013, last updated: January 2024